The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09
tn: PRESIDENTS VIEWS.

a New York Journalist Talks with the
Chief Magistrate Harassing Duties 81
Hts ONCE What He Thinks Of Recent
Events Ii Grand Arms. circles Pleased
with the Progress OF Civilssarvies Re
form Satisfied with One Term.
NEW YORK, Sept IA morning journal
bubfishes a six column interview with Pres
ident Cleveland in winch the President
after expressing regret at the disposition
shown by certain newspapers to throw OBJ
staeles in the way of his efforts to establish
civil-service reform 81 o firm basis, says:
mo man in the country can know the embaf-
easements and the perplexities which have sur
rounded me in attempting to mend the con-
dition of public affairs. With these Emita
tons to the Immediately successful &C.
soi1ipashment IF nv purpose, but guided
by every light possible I'd be maids hSaiis
able know 1 am trying to bring aboat the
remedy without the least personal ambi-
ton or intent. let me say here that If
the disappointment r;sin, from ms inabil y to
name for Office all tn sc commended by my
near ana political friends were sufficient cause
for alienation those who wish me well would
be very few TODAY
In a subsequent conversation the Presi-
dent said that the composition of the Pa
sitic Railroad Commission had been mat
ter of unusual thought and consideration
with him, and in view of the valuable infor-
nation obtained he was glad that
the question decided by Justice
Field against the commission had
not been raised eaf1iet Fheif dis
patch recommending the employment of
additional counsel had been answered inn.
mediately and full power given them. Why
such counsel had not been employed he had
not been informed, but he understood that
reasonable adjournment TO examine into
the law had been expected.
Concerning recent events in Grand Army
circles MI. Cleveland said:
The soldier having laii down his arms after
MAX ng so many sacrifices and enduring so
many hardships having achieved such vast
and good work in perpetuating our Republic,
shou be pre-eminentlF the best citizens.
sumes his citizenship his desire for the
peace and quiet of his country and
its prosperity, entirely dependent upon these,
should be emphasized by the very trials he has
Undergone. do not bel efe 1te can be carried
away from the even plane of that good citizen
ship by the devices of INSCRIPTIONS men who
would use him for partisan purposes"
Further he said he did not fear there
would be any overt act in ST. Louis in retail
iation for the Wheeling Incident, because it
was contrary to what he knew to be tho
spirit Of the municipal and commercial
bodies which had invited him there and
which he believed to be the spirit of the
whole people of St Louis.
With the progress of Civil-Service form
the President is very much pleased. He
said
I'm the first yeaf. and half of my Admiriis:
tration men came here by the hundreds, by the
thousands, each company filling the room and
emptying it only to make way for another
throng, and there was always the same
formula: I have come, Mr.. President, to ask
that ---- be removed The reason would
ask. Why he is a Republican, would
be the uniform answer. TIL was repeated
over and over and over again in each successive
case With seemingly hopeless itefatiOn. had
always-I could have-but the same answers:
You must bring me proof Of his unfitness as q
public officer understood very we'll their in
ability to comprehend this. Knowing very well
the process which had obtained here for so many
years; I could but sympathize with their inabil-
ity. But now the formula is altogether Changed.
have not heard that expression for many
months past. 1t is now, at the outset of every
application for change: This man is unfit, a
faithless public servant; and these are the rea-
sons Is net this very great deal I'd have acs
complished? Is not this sufficient answer,
for the time that has interviewed, to those who
may complain that more has not been accom-
plished?'
Concerning the question of his renomina-
tion Mr. Cleveland said
1T seems to be the universal belief that a
President must desire denomination. can
not understand how any man who has served
one term as President could have personal
a. second
its SOLEMN responsibilities its harrassing do.
ties and it's constant and grievous exactions
upon his mental and phys cal strength His
consent, it seems to me, to accept second
term should rest only upon his sense of a SOL
emn obligation as citizen and an appreciation
OF his duty when called upon to bear his par
ticular part of the burden OF citizenship Thus
the office can have-~at least it can have for me
--no personal allurements. hope my present
term may be concluded with profit to the coiin-
try and with as few mistakes ON my own part
as are incident to falllbl6 human natur6